{
  "title": "BERENICE",
  "category": "[SHORT-STORY]",
  "article": "Early Poe story with a particularly gruesome ending…\n“1835: Poe's \"Berenice,\" a tale of the fear one man has of his cousin/wife-to-be's teeth once she\nostensibly has become a ghost, is published in the Southern Literary Messenger, where Poe would\nlater serve as editor. Poe scholars say that the impetus for the story--which begins with the cheery\n\"Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform.\"--came from a Baltimore Saturday\nVisiter [sic] news account of grave robbers exhuming tombs to extract teeth to be sold to\ndentists.”",
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  "chronology": "THE KPRC DRAMATIC PLAYERS (KPRC, HOUSTON)\n[Monday—10:15-10:45 PM]\nJanuary 21, 1935\n“Berenice”\nPERSONNEL: Sylvester Gross (director).\nBLACK NIGHT (WBAP, FORT WORTH)\n[Monday—11:00-11:30 PM]\nApril 25, 1938\n“Berenice”\n[“…Perhaps the most grewsome and least known of Edgar Allan Poe’s\nhorror tales…”]\nONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT (KFI, LOS ANGELES)\n[Wednesday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nMay 1, 1940\n“Berenice”\n[“…designated by its author as ‘the most unusual story of a man ever told\non the face of the earth.’ It tells of an unfortunate English gentleman\nwhose body is inhabited at times by the soul of Ageus, ancient Greek\nmaniac who was put to death after he had been convicted of wholesale\nmurder…”]\nTHE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER (WRVR, NEW YORK—CBS)\n[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]\nJanuary 9, 1975\n“Berenice”\n[“…It was Berenice’s smile that attracted Ernest Montresor. He married\nher but now, a year later, he has grown to hate her—her sensuous smile\nhas become an ugly sneer. And, besides, he has fallen in love with her\nyounger sister, Contance. Montresor can’t wait for Berenice, who is\nseriously ill, to die. She does, but on her deathbed she swears to\nMontresor that her smile will haunt him forever and eventually drive him\nto near insanity…”]\nSCRIPT: George Lowther.\nPERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director).\nCAST: Joan Banks (Berenice), Roberta Maxwell (Constance), Norman Rose\n(Anthony Lamb), Michael Tolin (Montresor).\nEXTANT RECORDING\nHORROR HOUSE (ATLANTA)\nCirca 1993\n“The Imp of the Perverse”\n[“…Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s eponymic ‘Imp’ and his ‘Berenice’ by\nPrometheus Award-winner Brad Linaweaver, this twisted gem deals with\nguilt, obsession, and long teeth…”]\nEXTANT RECORDING\nHISTORIAS (RNE, MADRID)\n[\nApril 11, 1999\n“Berenice” / “La mascara de la muerte roja”",
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